Scenes of Instruction - The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film (Paperback, Annotated Ed)

This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia UniversityOCOs early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industryOCOs sponsorship of a business course on film at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Southern California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	April 2007
Authors:	Dana Polan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	416
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24963-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-520-24963-1
Barcode:	9780520249639

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